On Thursday 03 April 2008, luis jure wrote:
> El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200
>
> "b.n." <brullonulla@(protected):
> > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known
> > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot
> > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on
> > another partition.
>
> that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a
> system already installed on a different partition?
>
> > I've never tried Virtualbox, but I heard a lot of praise on it. Can
> > it run a system installed on a disk partition?
>
> i just discovered virtualbox, it looks like an interesting alternative.
> has anyone tried it? after reading michael's experience i'm not very
> enthusiastic about installing vmware...

I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual you
can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number of
other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you must
shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have to
register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the registration
issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html

What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the
original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this?
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Regards,
Mick